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California Is Asking Residents to Report Sightings of Giant, Invasive Rodents

Nutria breed prolifically and they are absolute menaces

Eye worm extracted from Beckley

New Research

Woman Pulls Parasitic Cattle Eye Worm From Her Own Eye

This was the first-known time the parasite has made the jump from cows to humans

The Louvre museum has opened two showrooms with 31 paintings on display which can be claimed by their legitimate owners.

The Louvre Puts Nazi-Looted Art in Public Eye in Effort to Find Rightful Heirs

The museum hopes the initiative will help connect the works to their legitimate owners. But critics say the move is too little, too late

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Monster Fatberg Goes On Display at London Museum

The mass clogged the sewer under Whitechapel last year with 820 feet of solid grease, fat and dirty diapers

Scientists Make Match.com Profile for Bolivia’s Loneliest Frog

‘Romeo’ the Sehuencas water frog may be the last surviving member of his species

New Met Exhibition Transports You to the Korean Peninsula's Diamond Mountains

The North Korea resort destination has been inaccessible to tourists for nearly a decade

KBO 2012 HZ84 (left) and 2012 HE85 (right)

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New Horizons Snaps Farthest Image Ever Taken From Earth

Drifting 3.79 billion miles from home, the NASA probe took pictures of two Kuiper Belt objects

Cropped stamp featuring a portrait of William Shakespeare.

Software Points to Possible Inspiration for 11 Shakespeare Plays

Researchers used plagiarism software to highlight similarities between Shakespeare’s work and an obscure, unpublished manuscript

Founders of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst. The group's motto was "deeds, not words," Marshall writes in his blog.

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Photographs Documenting the Struggle for Women's Suffrage Are Reimagined in Full Color

Colorizer Tom Marshall's deft touch brings new life to 100-year-old photographs

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A Deadly Virus Is on the Rise for Australia's Cats

"Cat plague" hasn't been seen in pets down under for 40 years ago, but a new spate of cases has veterinarians concerned

Jedek speakers

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Unknown Language Discovered in Malaysia

About 280 people north of the Malay Peninsula speak the language, which is called Jedek

New Research

Praying Mantises Don Tiny Goggles to Help Us Understand 3-D Vision

Unlike humans and other animals, the insects rely on movement to judge distances to their prey

Collège des Prêcheurs, future home of The Musée Jacqueline et Pablo Picasso

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New Museum in Southern France Will House More Than a Thousand Works by Pablo Picasso

The Musée Jacqueline et Pablo Picas, which is expected to open in 2021, will include a trove of works inherited by the artist's stepdaughter

magnified, fully mature human egg grown in the lab

New Research

Researchers Mature Human Eggs in the Lab for the First Time

Developing eggs so they are ready to be fertilized could help women who have trouble producing their own

Material scientist Liangbing Hu (left) holds wood stronger than titanium and tougher than steel after a two-step process. Mechanical engineer Teng Li (right) holds an untreated block of the same wood.

New Research

New Super Wood Beats Metals in Feats of Strength

A new method combining chemical, pressure and heat treatments can create ultra-dense material that is stronger than steel

Hyundai Pavilion designed by Asif Khan at PyeongChang Winter Olympics 2018

Winter Olympics

Artist Coats Olympic Pavilion With the Blackest Black Pigment

The pavilion is also studded with thousands of light rods to resemble the twinkling night sky

A tessera or a Roman six-sided die from the Vidy Roman Museum

How Centuries-Old Dice Reveal Changing Attitudes About Fate

Dice made in Roman times were lopsided and irregular, but they became more consistent during the Renaissance

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This Textbook Helps Teach English in Downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row

The readings are geared to engage and inspire adults hoping to improve their literacy skills

Soohorang, mascot of the Winter Olympics 2018, stands in the Olympic Village in Gangneung, South Korea.

Meet the 2018 Olympic Artists in Residence

Four artists who are also athletes will make art by Olympians for Olympians at the PyeongChang Olympics

Black lung x-rays from a patient in Birmingham, Alabama, 1972

New Research

Study Uncovers Startling Number of Black Lung Cases in Coal Miners

Miners are contracting the disease with striking frequency and at younger ages than ever before

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